50 Cent stays out of his own hood

Though 50 Cent's The Massacre opens up with a cut entitled "In My Hood," the Queens rapper recently admitted that he never returns to his old stomping grounds. Yet, according to him, he's not scared of neighborhood thugs, but of what he might do to them. "It secures the fact that no one gets hurt. See, if I go back to the 'hood and they mistake me for being different now and do something out of pocket, I may not respond right there myself," 50 explained. "But when I send them a gift... a ni99a laid out in the street over there, I would feel like I gave them the opportunity. I'm preventing them from hurting themselves by not being available for them to make that mistake. As long as I keep myself away from situations that I know will aggravate me to the point that I could possibly do something that ain't healthy for me, I'm happy. The only thing I'm afraid of is me."